The only Tide-specific feature supported out of the box in libgdx is animated tiles. I like Tide myself (and that's why I added it to libgdx) but you'll probably have a better time with Tiled. You can use dermetfan's libgdx-utils to get animated tiles from a tmx map, among other things.

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